Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Tooreena, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreena
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59014, -9.94488
- SMR number
- GA010-037----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a bog-filled hollow overlooked by low ridges to E and W. A circular enclosure (D c. 30m) defined by wooden hazel posts with a centrally placed area of wicker matting. Uncovered during turf cutting; the wicker matting was destroyed but portions of the enclosure still survive in a turf bank (info. M. Gibbons). Not visited.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.